Resources relevant to commercialization

• External resources
  • Community links
  • Government links (including patent databases)
• UW resources
  • Articles
  • Presentations
  • Links

External resources

Networks and Partnerships

• Accelerator for Commercialization Excellence
• C4
  Southwestern Ontario's technology transfer community
• The Accelerator Centre
  Waterloo-based world-renowned centre for the cultivation of technological entrepreneurship
• Communitech
  Waterloo Region technology association
• Flintbox
  IP exchange and innovation network

Patent Offices

• U.S. patent database
  Searchable U.S. patent database
• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Office patent database
  Searchable PCT patent database
• Canadian patent database
  Searchable Canadian patent database
• European patent database
  Searchable European patent database
• Delphion patent search engine
  U.S and Patent Cooperation Treaty patent search engine

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UW resources

IP Articles

• Not Every Researcher is an Inventor
• Disclosing IP
• Disclosure of Prior Art
• To Patent or Not to Patent
• Patenting Improvements
• Enforcing a Patent
• Pseudo-Exclusive Licenses Masquerading as a Non-Exclusive License

Links

• The Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (CBET)
  Supports, builds on and expands entrepreneurial initiatives at UW
• UW Secretariat
  UW policies, procedures and guidelines

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